Bibliography

Many people have asked about a Bibliography for the podcast. I did include some bibliography in the earlier episodes, but I thought this might be useful as a list. I will slowly add items to it as we go ahead with the episodes.

General

These are some of the titles which cover the whole of Iranian history. They are the books I think are both scholarly sound and at the same time accessible.

The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History, edited by Touraj Daryaee, OUP, 2012: this is a very good collection of essays by some of the leading scholars of Iranian history, covering anything from the Paleolithic to the Islamic Republic.

Josef Wiesehofer, Ancient Persia, IB Tauris, 2001: a great introduction to the history of Iran before AD 700, written by one of my favourite historians.

These are the books on which much of the narrative of the early episodes has been built. I love them all!

D. T. Potts, The Archaeology of Elam, CUP, 1999: very interesting read. Much more of history than archaeology, despite the fact that Dan Potts himself is one of the greatest archaeologists of ancient Iran. A gripping narrative, if there ever was one.

D. T. Potts (ed.), the Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran, OUP, 2013: a collection of great articles covering anything from the paleolithic to early Islam, and including a contribution by myself.

J. Alvarez-Mon and Mark B. Garrison (eds.), Elam and Persia, Eisenbrauns, 2011: a collection of interesting articles by some of the leading historians and archaeologists of Elam, focusing on the transition from the Elamite to the Persian period.

Marc van de Mieroop, a History of the Ancient Near East, 2nd ed., Blackwell, 2006: a short, accessible introduction, although it might not appeal to those who need more detail!